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Nehemías 6:3

Listen to Nehemías 6:3
3 Así que envié unos mensajeros a decirles: «Estoy ocupado en una gran obra, y no puedo ir. Si bajara yo a reunirme con ustedes, la obra se vería interrumpida».

Nehemías 6:3 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 6:3

And I sent messengers unto them
He did not show any open contempt of them, nor did he even return answer by the messenger that came from them, but sent some of his own people to them:

saying, I am doing a great work;
was about an affair of great importance, very busy, and not at leisure to give them a meeting:

so that I cannot come down;
Jerusalem being built on an eminence, and the place proposed to meet at in a plain, going thither is expressed by coming down:

why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?
signifying that it would cease if he left it; and it being of greater consequence than anything they could have to converse about, he argues it would be wrong to relinquish it on such an account; this was the reason he thought fit to give, but was not the only, nor the principal reason, which is suggested in the preceding verse.

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Nehemías 6:3 In-Context

1 Sambalat, Tobías, Guesén el árabe y el resto de nuestros enemigos se enteraron de que yo había reconstruido la muralla, y de que se habían cerrado las brechas (aunque todavía no se habían puesto las puertas en su sitio).
2 Entonces Sambalat y Guesén me enviaron este mensaje: «Tenemos que reunirnos contigo en alguna de las poblaciones del valle de Ono». En realidad, lo que planeaban era hacerme daño.
3 Así que envié unos mensajeros a decirles: «Estoy ocupado en una gran obra, y no puedo ir. Si bajara yo a reunirme con ustedes, la obra se vería interrumpida».
4 Cuatro veces me enviaron este mensaje, y otras tantas les respondí lo mismo.
5 La quinta vez Sambalat me envió, por medio de uno de sus siervos, el mismo mensaje en una carta abierta,

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